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I wanted to compare the art world with the literary world. How
do museums differ from libraries in their attitudes about digitizing their
holdings? Most museums do not display all of their holdings. Should all their
holdings all be digitized to increase access? What quality of digitized images
should be available?
While the Google Book Project has been very guarded about
their actual scanning process, it appears that the Getty research institute is
willing to share information about their digitizing process. This article
mentions the use of cameras in addition to scanning equipment and the
importance of creating good metadata for search engines.
Predicting the impact of digitized images, does future study
of art history demand museums make these changes? Like libraries, are museums
struggling to reinvent themselves?
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